Joseph Lombardo

Joseph Patrick Lombardo (1 January 1929-19 October 2019) was consigliere of the Chicago Outfit during the 1980s.

Biography
Giuseppe Lombardi was born in Chicago, Illinois on 1 January 1929, one of 11 children born to an Italian immigrant family from Bari, Apulia. He joined the Chicago Outfit the 1950s while using the assumed name "Joseph Patrick Lombardo", and he initially worked as a jewel thief and a loan collector. Lombardo became the right-hand man of Angelo J. LaPietra and rose to the rank of consigliere in the family, helping to manage its Las Vegas operations. On 15 December 1982, he was convicted of bribing US Senator from Nevada Howard Cannon to get a trucking deregulation bill blocked, and he was sentenced to 15 years in prison. He was released on 12 November 1992 after only 10 years in prison. In 2005, he was indicted for several murder charges, and he was arrested on 13 January 2006 after being at large for eight months. In 2009, he was sentenced to life in prison, and he died at the ADX Florence supermax prison on 19 October 2019 at the age of 90.